My favourite thing about music is playing with others. Monday we play with a stunning duo called Girl Blue. We're really hoping YOU *yeah you* will come out and help us show them how hospitable Maryland can be for their music.

"Girl Blue is the moniker for Arielle O’Keefe—a powerful and soul-stirring singer-songwriter. The winner of seven Thomas Edison Awards, Girl Blue’s music is like poetry set to sound. Her songs are unafraid to dig deeper into the complicated experiences of women, the impact of social media, and struggles with mental health. Girl Blue’s music creates a powerful space of contemplation, with the utmost authenticity. Join us in this unique, intimate setting for an evening of great songs and great performances."

So yeah - nab a ticket or 7 at sandyspringmuseum.salsalabs.org/girlblue/index.html

OH - and tonight? We're not able to be home, but we're not going to leave you lonely. We'll be playing a retrospective of Live from the Lair guests including (but not limited to) the Honey Badgers, Greg Klyma, Chuck the Madd Ox, Seth Kibel, Conor Brendan... so many good people have found themselves in our home, blinking at the lights... 

ilyAIMY is Live from the Lair on facebook.com/ilyAIMY, YouTube/ilyAIMY and twitch.tv/robilyaimy every Wednesday at 7pm ET. 

Full a full calendar, please visit www.ilyaimy.com/upcoming-and-incoming/

The pandemic is with us seemingly eternally, so it doesn't hurt to call a venue ahead of time to make sure there are no surprises! We try to keep everything up-to-date on ilyAIMY.com - but our social media is more up-to-the-second! Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are where we'll post last-minute changes - so make sure you follow, Like, subscribe... whatever it is you do on those crazy thangs!

For the Maryland mailing list this week I waxed poetic about Girl Blue. I see no reason not to repeat that again below...

NERFA is a weird experience. You pack a couple of hundred musicians in various places in their careers into a couple of floors in a quirky, off-season resort hotel, keep them up till 4am, wake them up at 7am, and see what happens. People write and cry and think about what they're doing with their Lives. We learn and forget ourselves and eat bad food till someone discovers where the GOOD food is and then we all descend upon it.

There is judgement about the coffee.

And there are these musical epiphanies - these moments of perfection heightened exquisitely by fatigue poisons and the drug-highs of exhaustion, both for the audience who is vulnerable and the performer who is also vulnerable. 

And so - I'm not saying Girl Blue, who we're playing with one week from today at Sandy Spring Museum, is the best artist I saw at NERFA this past year. And I'm not necessarily saying she gave me all the same emotions that I received upon seeing Ani Difranco perform the first time as an impressionable 20-something dreamer. And I'm certainly not going to admit to having wrapped one arm around Matt Nakoa and one arm around Connor Garvey and wept openly on a couch in a hotel room at 3am on the Jersey Shore.

But that's sure as Hell how I remember it.

So don't miss this show.

Monday March 13th at Sandy Spring Museum.
ilyAIMY and Girl Blue. 7pm. $25. Tickets at
sandyspringmuseum.salsalabs.org/girlblue/index.html

- rob
ilyAIMY
Baltimore, MD 
www.ilyaimy.com